Mc Chouffe

Brewed by Brasserie d’Achouffe (Moortgat)
Style: Scotch Ale
Achouffe, Belgium

750 ml bottle from Total Wine. Poured a dark, rawhide brown color and a massive head with decent staying power. Yeasty aroma. Flavors provide subtle caramel notes, soy sauce, generic yeast strain, and molasses in the finish. Medium/high carbonation and medium/full body. This is a Scotch Ale? Good, if forgettable.

This is a really fantastic beer, very complex in flavor. Nice balance of hops and malt. Has flavors of bananas, figs. and plum. Very complex and delicious.

75cl bottle. Opaque brown with a tenacious beige head composed of quite small bubbles. Plenty of sediment, and lace as well. The aroma is a lot of dough and wine, with some malt sweetness. The flavor is yeasty with some alcohol, and the malts feed a little sweet caramel into the equation. Peppery and dry aftertaste. The body felt pretty light and smooth for the abv, and this makes it drink like a much lighter beer. An interesting beer. The yeast really dominated the flavor for me, as opposed to dark, smokey malts as I would expect in a scotch. Definitely Belgian in origin. I would try it again, but it’s not cheap around here.

750 ml. bottle, bb 2009, tight foam with a winey nose and first sip, very good body and excellent smooth finish with hops and caramel, an outstanding ale

On tap in a Providence resturant. Dark almost porter color. Fruity, sweet, spiced scent. Tastes similiar to scent except more of a sweet taste, maybe caramel and a smokey plum or grape. Very nice, will go back to drink again.

Fredagsbaren på biologi, Aarhus, Denmark Bottled Den Tatoverede Enke, København On tap Kandis-sweet and balanced with malt and hops

Bottle-Pours a deep, but slightly transparent mahogany body, with a nice beige froth sitting atop, leaving nice lace. Spicy, fruity nose with molasses, brown sugar, cherries and plum, with a touch of wood. Sweet Belgian candy sugar is up front, with peppery spices, some wood smoke, cherries and prunes. Quite effervescent and refreshing given the style and ABV. High drinkability. Well crafted.

Bottle, label is different from what is shown here on RB and reads this is a ’Artisanal Belgian Brown Ale’ not a Scotch Ale, this gushed over when I popped the cap, pours a slightly hazy brown and ruby with floaties, has a good size creamy off-white chocolate shake like head that deflates a bit, and leaves creamy lacing on the glass, aromas of dark bread and malt, raisin, plum and brown sugar sweetness, chocolate and faint caramel, I did not find any smoke or peat aromas, taste of dark malt and bread with plum raisin and fruit, has a pepper spice bite at the finish with alcohol warming in the throat, the pepper and alcohol linger on the tongue, a bit more alcohol then I expected for a Belgian strong ale of 8.5% alc., has a medium or less mouth feel with good carbonation that may cause this to feel light on the palate, this does not have the heavy, full or chewy feel of the other Scotchs I have had, this was a good Belgian strong ale but not like the Scotch as I was looking forward to, maybe the Belgian yeast makes a different Scotch? Certainly not what I expected.